On the role of hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal gelation
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In this letter, we investigate several aspects related to the effect of hydrodynamics interactions on phase separation-induced gelation of colloidal particles. We explain physically the observation of Tanaka and Araki[Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 85}, 1338 (2000)] of hydrodynamic stabilization of cellular network structures in two dimensions. We demonstrate that hydrodynamic interactions have only a minor quantitative influence on the structure of transient gels in three dimensions. We discuss some experimental implications of our results.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0604404,
title = {On the role of hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal gelation},
author = {R. Yamamoto and K. Kim and Y. Nakayama and K. Miyazaki and D. R. Reichman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0604404},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages, 6 figures. Contact K. Miyazaki for figures with better resolutions